South from Granada explained

South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan, first published in 1957.

Brenan, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, settled in Spain in 1920,^[1] and lived there on and off for the rest of his life.^[2] The book is an example of travel literature, mixing an autobiographical account of his life in Yegen, the village where he found his first home in Spain,^[1] with detailed background information about the Alpujarras region of Andalusia. He describes visits to his home by Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington,^[3] and also devotes space to Spanish prehistory, particularly the Millaran culture.

Film version

South from Granada has been adapted into a film, Al sur de Granada (2003), directed by Fernando Colomo. The film includes some biographical material not in the original book.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nayler . Mark . December 2018 . Gerald Brenan's Yegen, a century on . Sur in English.
2. Book: Holland, R. F. . The warm south: how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination . Yale University Press . New Haven . 2018 . 9780300240870 . 235.
3. Book: Speake . Jennifer . Jennifer Speake . Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia . Fitzroy Dearborn . New York . 2003 . 9781579584405 . 1119.